Are the National Parks Trolling Trump With Climate Facts?

Amid President Trump's recent moves to silence EPA employees and revive the Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipeline projects, Badlands National Park's Twitter account decided to remind people why they are, in fact, the baddest. The national park's social media staged an protest by tweeting out facts related to the specter of man-made climate change. Then, poof, the tweets were deleted.

Ordinarily, the recitation of scientific facts on a national park's account wouldn't be noteworthy. But the Interior Department ordered a total social media blackout after the National Park Service shared a tweet comparing last week's inauguration crowd with President Barack Obama's.

Here are the offending posts:

"The pre-industrial concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was 280 parts per million (ppm). As of December 2016, 404.93 ppm." — Badlands Nat'l Park (@BadlandsNPS) January 24, 2017

Today, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is higher than at any time in the last 650,000 years. #climate — Badlands Nat'l Park (@BadlandsNPS) January 24, 2017

Flipside of the atmosphere; ocean acidity has increased 30% since the Industrial Revolution. "Ocean Acidification" #climate#carboncycle